The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1887-03-16
COUNCIL.

nor during the whole session:
COUNCIL.
Kennedy election law; giving the pub
lie administrator preference over other
creditors; Kennrdy's printing law, re-
quring the publication by the treasurer
of all licenses issued, and also the proceed
ings of the commissioners, who are au-
thorized to contract with prpers to do the
same; repeating the section which limits
corporations to $40 acres of land; relating
Ito the manner of paying jurors and wit
4 nes>es; creating the county of Park; Col
Inns bill relating to the punishment of
persons bringing stolen property from an
other state, territory or country; Collins
banking bill; Kennedy's bill providing a
territorial board Of arbitration to settle
the differences between employers and
employees, the governor appointing A.
Eddy of Missoula, w j. Penrose of Butte,
arbor culture bill; relating to the adop-
tion of children; for the relief of Samuel
Snyder, assessor of Meagher county; pre-
venting the mixing of false pedigrees of
stock; increasing the salaries of terrific
rial auditor and treasurer to So, 500 each
authorizing the district court to change
the names Of persons and places; provid-
ing who may and who may not adopt
children; Thompson's revenue law, to
take effect December l, 1887, making
complete change in the system of ASSESS
ment of property and collection of taxes,
and providing for a territorial board of
equalization for the assessment of rail-
roads and to equalize the assessment on
stock, real estate, ETC.; authorizing the
I governor and territorial superintendent of
public instruction to maintain school for
a longer term than now provided by law
at territorial expense; prohibiting the
sale Of liquor within two miles of rail-
road under course of construction; Ken
nedys marriage law, requiring a license,
that minors obtain the consent of their
parents, and forbidding the marriage of
first cousins; the militia law; the NUM-
cipal incorporation act; the suppression
of diseases among sheep; giving the in
mates of the insane asylum postal rights,
etc.; requiring the owners of barbed wire
fences TO keep them in repair authoriz-
ing the governor to restore the rights of
citizenship to discharged conYicts; author
izing the governor to discharge any per-
son from the insane asylum who has re-
covered reason, said person to receive $40
in cash and a comfortable suit of clothes;
modifying section 1914, 18th division of the
revised statutes, reducing the penalty so
as to make conviction possible-this re-
lates to the killing of domestic animals by
persons not owning the same; making it
a misdemeanor for person to wear the
badge of a society to which he does not
belong; apportioning the members of the
house, so as to give Meaghar and Fergus
one each, Gallatin two and Park one; au-
thorizing the county commissioners to
build jails and lock-ups in towns other
than county seats at an expense not ex-
ceeding ST ,000-introduced to provide .jails |
for the towns Of Choteau and Great Falls, |
but the law had to be made general in its |
character to avoid conflict with the re-
strictive act.
Defining rape and it's punishment: au-
thorizing the governor to execute bonds |
for arms of militia; concerning the rights
of married women; amending the gag
law and repeating sections 81 and
%; providing new seal for the territory:
protecting the wages of wage workers to
the amount of 5000, making the same
prior claim over all other claims except
liens filed sixty days before attachment,
or death5 preventing the
branding of cattle in certain seasons of the
year; preventing the sale of intoxicants
in variety theaters Or any place where
women or minors are employed or con-
gregate; changing the time for holding
terms of the supreme court; requiring the
use of safety cages in mines; providing
for Fergus county officers; s
regulating gambling; amending section
3l0, article 3, revised statutes; permitting I
foreign railroad corporations to build in {
The territory and consolidate their branch t
IS under one management; concerning t
rustees OF religious corporations; amend c
ng the bounty law by adding bounty a
or prairie dogs and ground squirrels; +
liens of mechanics aud others;
rhompson's general license law; allow f
ng deputy lreasllrers IN counties with e
z 100000 of assessable property-atf .
,nly Silver Bow and Lewis and Clarke; n
4orham's bill concerning roads and high c
ways; CONCERNING chatt.l NOR cages: the ii
lew fence law; concerning meetings OF Il
ounty commissioners; concerning the c.
ees of jurors in civil cases; preventing p
ans running at large between August Il